Youssou N'Dour1999;
1 Tom Waits - Mule Variations
2 Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
3 Tindersticks - Simple Pleasure
4 Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
5 Johnny Dowd - Pictures From Life's Other Side
6 dEUS - The Ideal Crash
7 Le Tigre - Le Tigre
8 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
9 Zita Swoon - I Paint Pictures on a Wedding Dress
10 Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla
11 Ibrahim Ferrer - Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer
12 David Gray - White Ladder
13 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
14 Shack - H.M.S. Fable
15 Beth Orton - Central Reservation
1998;
1 Manu Chao - Clandestino
2 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
3 Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
4 Kruder & Dorfmeister - K & D Sessions
5 Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
6 Rae & Christian - Northern Sulphuric Soul
7 OutKast - Aquemini
8 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Acme
9 Hieroglyphics - 3rd Eye Vision
10 PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
11 Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
12 Jarboe - Anhedoniac
13 Madonna - Ray of Light
14 The Daktaris - Soul Explosion
15 Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
1997;
1 Radiohead - OK Computer
2 Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
3 Portishead - Portishead
4 Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
5 Howie B - Turn The Dark Off
6 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
7 Morphine - Like Swimming
8 Björk - Homogenic
9 The Verve - Urban Hymns
10 U2 - Pop
11 The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
12 Daft Punk - Homework
13 David Holmes - Let's Get Killed
14 KRS-One - I Got Next
15 Elliott Smith - Either/Or
1996;
1 16 Horsepower - Sackloth 'N Ashes
2 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
3 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
4 Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
5 Tool - Aenima
6 LTJ Bukem - Logical Progression, Level I
7 Los Lobos - Colossal Head
8 dEUS - In a Bar, Under the Sea
9 Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension
10 Porno for Pyros - Good God's Urge
11 Patti Smith - Gone Again
12 Girls Against Boys - House of GVSB
13 Björk - Telegram
14 R.L. Burnside - A Ass Pocket Of Whiskey
15 Lee "Scratch" Perry - Who Put the Voodoo 'pon Reggae
1995;
1 Tricky - Maxinquay
2 Leftfield - Leftism
3 PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
4 Tindersticks - Tindersticks II
5 Long Fin Killie - Houdini
6 Nightmares on Wax - Smokers Delight
7 Radiohead - The Bends
8 Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity
9 Mobb Deep - The Infamous
10 Björk - Post
11 The Tragically Hip - Day for Night
12 Autechre - Tri Repetae
13 The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
14 Swans - The Great Annihilator
15 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
1994;
1 Portishead - Dummy
2 Massive Attack - Protection
3 Ali Farka Touré and Ry Cooder - Talking Timbuktu
4 Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
5 The God Machine - One Last Laugh In A Place Of Dying
6 Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
7 Bark Psychosis - Hex
8 The Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall
9 Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
10 dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
11 Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
12 Soundgarden - Superunknown
13 Nas - Illmatic
14 Spearhead - Home
15 Laurie Anderson - Bright Red
1993;
1 Björk - Debut
2 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
3 Guru - Jazzmatazz Volume I
4 Swell - 41
5 Nirvana - In Utero
6 Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
7 Tool - Undertow
8 Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
9 The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
10 Morphine - Good
11 Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
12 Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion
13 The God Machine - Scenes From The Second Storey
14 Me'Shell NdegéOcello - Plantation Lullabies
15 Junkhouse - Strays
1992;
1 R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
2 Gang Starr - Daily Operation
3 Faith No More - Angel Dust
4 Los Lobos - Kiko
5 Red Devils - King King
6 Blind Melon - Blind Melon
7 Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
8 Alice in Chains - Dirt
9 Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
10 Dr. Dre - The Chronic
11 Sonic Youth - Dirty
12 Tom Waits - Bone Machine
13 The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
14 Ministry - Psalm 69
15 Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
1991;
1 Massive Attack - Blue Lines
2 Nirvana - Nevermind
3 U2 - Achtung Baby
4 Pearl Jam - Ten
5 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik
6 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
7 Metallica - Metallica
8 Urban Dance Squad - Life 'n Perspective of a Genuine Crossover
9 Primal Scream - Screamadelica
10 N.W.A - Niggaz For Life
11 MC Solaar - Qui Seme Le Vent Récolte Le Tempo
12 Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
13 The KLF - The White Room
14 Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I
15 Israel Vibration - Forever
1990;
1 Happy Mondays - Pills'n Thrills And Bellyaches
2 Depeche Mode - Violator
3 George Michael - Listen without prejudice vol. I
4 Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
5 Youssou N'Dour - Set
6 Sonic Youth - Goo
7 Yo La Tengo - Fakebook
8 Deee-Lite - World Clique
9 Ride - Nowhere
10 The Shamen - En-Tact
11 Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - Without Judgement
12 A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
13 Pixies - Bossanova
14 They Might Be Giants - Flood
15 Alice in Chains - Facelift
See also;
Best Albums of The Late Fifties
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y26bt_best_albums_of_the_late_fifties_%281956-1959%29
Best Albums of The Sixties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y23k7_best_albums_of_the_sixties_%281960-1969%29
Best albums of The Seventies;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y22fg_best_albums_of_the_seventies_%281970-1979%29
Best Albums of the Eighties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y24lq_best_albums_of_the_eighties_%281980-1989%29
Best Albums of The Noughties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/09/08/2zux3s_best_albums_of_the_noughties_%282000-2009%29
1 Tom Waits - Mule Variations
2 Underworld - Beaucoup Fish
3 Tindersticks - Simple Pleasure
4 Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
5 Johnny Dowd - Pictures From Life's Other Side
6 dEUS - The Ideal Crash
7 Le Tigre - Le Tigre
8 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
9 Zita Swoon - I Paint Pictures on a Wedding Dress
10 Super Furry Animals - Guerrilla
11 Ibrahim Ferrer - Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer
12 David Gray - White Ladder
13 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness
14 Shack - H.M.S. Fable
15 Beth Orton - Central Reservation
1998;
1 Manu Chao - Clandestino
2 Massive Attack - Mezzanine
3 Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
4 Kruder & Dorfmeister - K & D Sessions
5 Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children
6 Rae & Christian - Northern Sulphuric Soul
7 OutKast - Aquemini
8 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Acme
9 Hieroglyphics - 3rd Eye Vision
10 PJ Harvey - Is This Desire?
11 Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
12 Jarboe - Anhedoniac
13 Madonna - Ray of Light
14 The Daktaris - Soul Explosion
15 Mark Hollis - Mark Hollis
1997;
1 Radiohead - OK Computer
2 Buena Vista Social Club - Buena Vista Social Club
3 Portishead - Portishead
4 Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind
5 Howie B - Turn The Dark Off
6 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Boatman's Call
7 Morphine - Like Swimming
8 Björk - Homogenic
9 The Verve - Urban Hymns
10 U2 - Pop
11 The Prodigy - The Fat of the Land
12 Daft Punk - Homework
13 David Holmes - Let's Get Killed
14 KRS-One - I Got Next
15 Elliott Smith - Either/Or
1996;
1 16 Horsepower - Sackloth 'N Ashes
2 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Murder Ballads
3 DJ Shadow - Endtroducing...
4 Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants
5 Tool - Aenima
6 LTJ Bukem - Logical Progression, Level I
7 Los Lobos - Colossal Head
8 dEUS - In a Bar, Under the Sea
9 Tricky - Pre-Millenium Tension
10 Porno for Pyros - Good God's Urge
11 Patti Smith - Gone Again
12 Girls Against Boys - House of GVSB
13 Björk - Telegram
14 R.L. Burnside - A Ass Pocket Of Whiskey
15 Lee "Scratch" Perry - Who Put the Voodoo 'pon Reggae
1995;
1 Tricky - Maxinquay
2 Leftfield - Leftism
3 PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
4 Tindersticks - Tindersticks II
5 Long Fin Killie - Houdini
6 Nightmares on Wax - Smokers Delight
7 Radiohead - The Bends
8 Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity
9 Mobb Deep - The Infamous
10 Björk - Post
11 The Tragically Hip - Day for Night
12 Autechre - Tri Repetae
13 The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
14 Swans - The Great Annihilator
15 Oasis - (What's the Story) Morning Glory?
1994;
1 Portishead - Dummy
2 Massive Attack - Protection
3 Ali Farka Touré and Ry Cooder - Talking Timbuktu
4 Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
5 The God Machine - One Last Laugh In A Place Of Dying
6 Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
7 Bark Psychosis - Hex
8 The Sabres of Paradise - Haunted Dancehall
9 Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom
10 dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
11 Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
12 Soundgarden - Superunknown
13 Nas - Illmatic
14 Spearhead - Home
15 Laurie Anderson - Bright Red
1993;
1 Björk - Debut
2 Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92
3 Guru - Jazzmatazz Volume I
4 Swell - 41
5 Nirvana - In Utero
6 Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
7 Tool - Undertow
8 Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
9 The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
10 Morphine - Good
11 Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle
12 Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion
13 The God Machine - Scenes From The Second Storey
14 Me'Shell NdegéOcello - Plantation Lullabies
15 Junkhouse - Strays
1992;
1 R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
2 Gang Starr - Daily Operation
3 Faith No More - Angel Dust
4 Los Lobos - Kiko
5 Red Devils - King King
6 Blind Melon - Blind Melon
7 Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
8 Alice in Chains - Dirt
9 Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted
10 Dr. Dre - The Chronic
11 Sonic Youth - Dirty
12 Tom Waits - Bone Machine
13 The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde
14 Ministry - Psalm 69
15 Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
1991;
1 Massive Attack - Blue Lines
2 Nirvana - Nevermind
3 U2 - Achtung Baby
4 Pearl Jam - Ten
5 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik
6 My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
7 Metallica - Metallica
8 Urban Dance Squad - Life 'n Perspective of a Genuine Crossover
9 Primal Scream - Screamadelica
10 N.W.A - Niggaz For Life
11 MC Solaar - Qui Seme Le Vent Récolte Le Tempo
12 Primus - Sailing the Seas of Cheese
13 The KLF - The White Room
14 Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion I
15 Israel Vibration - Forever
1990;
1 Happy Mondays - Pills'n Thrills And Bellyaches
2 Depeche Mode - Violator
3 George Michael - Listen without prejudice vol. I
4 Jane's Addiction - Ritual de lo Habitual
5 Youssou N'Dour - Set
6 Sonic Youth - Goo
7 Yo La Tengo - Fakebook
8 Deee-Lite - World Clique
9 Ride - Nowhere
10 The Shamen - En-Tact
11 Jah Wobble's Invaders of the Heart - Without Judgement
12 A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
13 Pixies - Bossanova
14 They Might Be Giants - Flood
15 Alice in Chains - Facelift
See also;
Best Albums of The Late Fifties
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y26bt_best_albums_of_the_late_fifties_%281956-1959%29
Best Albums of The Sixties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y23k7_best_albums_of_the_sixties_%281960-1969%29
Best albums of The Seventies;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y22fg_best_albums_of_the_seventies_%281970-1979%29
Best Albums of the Eighties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/08/17/2y24lq_best_albums_of_the_eighties_%281980-1989%29
Best Albums of The Noughties;
http://www.last.fm/user/thomas10/journal/2009/09/08/2zux3s_best_albums_of_the_noughties_%282000-2009%29
